Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
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Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
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Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.
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If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
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'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.
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I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.
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It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.
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Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head.
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'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
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In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.
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I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.
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City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor.
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In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.